Best movies of before 2000

Snatch(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.



The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



Quills(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



Repulsion(1965)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.



Bonnie and Clyde(1967)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.



Gremlins(1984)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.



Batman(1989)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.



Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Dazed and Confused(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Grosse Pointe Blank(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.



Enemy of the State(1998)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.



Stir of Echoes(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

After being hypnotized by his sister in law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.



Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.




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